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...recent communication to the Alumni Bulletin by a graduate took Harvard instructors to task in rather vigorous terms for their faulty lecturing technique and enunciation in the classroom. The correspondent objects to the haltings and stammerings of some teachers in their discussions; but pays his respects in particular to the annoying habit of filling in these gaps "with a meaningless 'uh'." The complainant is doubtless right to a great degree. There are always some men whose busy minds team with so many ideas at once, that expression must halt and waver while the thoughts struggling for expression fight...
...modest and straight forward editorial in the February Illustrated stated that the task of the magazine is to be รค record and as far as possible an influence." It records by illustrations and by solid artifices. The really interesting illustrations in this number are those of the old library, of the Cadet. Corps, of a Shelby portrait in the Library, and of the Western colleges with which we are exchanging professors. Among the "recording" articles is none about "the "new Medicine" by Dr. Richard Cabot an extremely clear summary. Another is a description of the Medical School, which reads...
...knowledge is partial. In the Upanishad is written, "Mind can never know Brahma; words can never describe him. He can only be known by our soul, by its joy in him and by its love for him. Let man but once understand this great truth, and every obstacle, every task will become a joy; remain ignorant and we will pass from starvation to starvation, from trouble to trouble, and from one fear even to another...
...departed from Sanders Theatre with the comment. "I did not come to Sanders Theatre to hear a reproduction of the noises of the street," this same music may be as pellucid as the pool of a mountain stream. All this, however, gives the Victorian little help in his present task. All of his loves--very respectable indeed, but old-fashioned--Scott, Dickens Thankeray, the great Jane, Fielding, Chaucer, Goldsmith, Byron, Wordsworth, Shakespere, and the people of the Bible, have trained and perhaps limited him to expect definiteness, consequence, and satisfaction. In his time and in his reading of English literature...
...with its essentials. Senior Dormitories have become a vital Harvard tradition. Yet, if the class of 1914 is to bring more men into the Yard than ever before, if it is to make next year the most successful in the history of the Senior Dormitories, it faces a difficult task. There is much room for improvements in the Yard. Last year, a plan to install electric lights failed, because action was not taken until too late. If the class of 1914 intends to accomplish much, now is the time to act. Upon the Juniors collectively and individually we urge...